Hurricane Harvey, Faith and Resilience

“My faith was and is my most valuable resource,” Jameisha Brown says. “I learned to maintain hope, even when I was told there was none left.” Even though Hurricane Harvey made landfall in August 2017, the devastation left in its wake continues to affect many Texans...

Women and Forced Migration

Karin Wachter is a 2016 recipient of our Moore Fellowship, a $20,000 award for doctoral students at UT Austin in support of research on the human experience of crises. Wachter’s dissertation, titled “Women’s Social Support in War, Displacement, and Post-Resettlement,”...